I liked the cut of their jib in 2020, and I thought that JT was hilarious during his run for the Auckland mayoralty. One thing that a...

I'm watching Darleen Tana on TVNZ+ right now, and it struck me that Golriz essentially went through the same thing. This interview, in...

I've had about enough of being the Great White Hope, so I thought I'd share some home truths for my peer group and young people that have...

For the songwriters... from what I understand, Sullivan wrote tunes as tunes, and then invented large chunks of the accompaniment as he...

I saw the recent item regarding expanding A Little Night Music for a symphonic orchestra. I'm a fan of the chamber-like interplay of show...

Hot take: fear of difference, but mostly that the alt-right has obsessed over that topic for many years, and all that toxcicity has...

That's the theme of a lot of my work. Portrait of a Knight is essentially based around this, and the 'danger' is literally stated in...

I've been seeing a Puritan streak in NZ media regarding drug use. People are talking about giving up coffee and alcohol as if drugs are...

Well, I was brought up in a music culture that prized ethnomusicology and electroacoustic music as roughly on the same level as classical...

Riffing on a substack post by Ted Gioia. I don't think that's true: Bollywood is thriving, and so are many national cinemas. Hollywood...

Well, the conservatives are losing, and it's becoming de rigeur across the planet to use pops evenings and film score evenings to shore...

I saw a profile on Billy Porter where he said that he was writing a James Baldwin biopic and that as a writer one shouldn't speculate...

What I have done is actually called a social transition. This is exactly what it means: I changed my fashion to women's clothes, I chose...

Well, it came up while chatting with a mate this arvo. I reckon that there's an implicit assumption that when one discusses polyamoury,...

A quick lesson in New Zealand English from someone that used to edit it for RNZ. So, obviously, the LGBTQIA+ thing is easy to mock. In...

I wrote a big rant, but it got deleted. Short version: VUW isn't my family, and they made that clear when I came out. Long version: my...

Well, Glen McConnell managed to trigger me with an article that he wrote about disabled people, so here's me quickly explaining my...

As I've said several times, moving onto party drugs is probably the way of moving that drug checking thinking into the mainstream. I...

I reckon that Stephen Sondheim's films might be of interest to people. But yeah, I have no idea if they survived the fire in the late...

I think that can be a faulty lens regarding mental health. With bipolar disorder, it's entirely possible to feel great while acting in an...